Track-gage



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

RICHARD OAFFREY, OE WHITE HAVEN, PENNSYLVANIA.

TRAC K-GAG E.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 326,271, dated September 15, 1885.

Application iiled June 16, 1885. (No model.)

To all whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, RICHARD CAEFREY, a citizen of the United States, residing at White Haven, in the county of Luzerne and State ot' Pennsylvania, have inventedv certain new and useful Improvements in Railroad-Track Gages; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description ofthe invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to letters or figures of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

This invention relates to gages for railwaytracks; and it consists in the construction of the saine, as hereinafter fully described and claimed, so that the same gage used to tix the relative distance apart of the rails of the main track may also tix the relative positions of the guard-rails which are used where a siding diverges from the main track.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a side elevation of the gage, showing portions of the rails to which it is applied in cross-section. Fig. 2 is a plan view7 of the gage. Fig. 3 is also a plan view, and shows a1 modification in the method of forming the ends of the gage.

Similar letters indicate corresponding parts in all Vthe figures. l

A is a frog, consisting of two wing or guard rails, a a, and the main-track rail B, which is here brought to a point. These rails are connected together by any suitable means commonly in use. B is the other main-track rail, upon which the Car-wheels run.

C is a guard-rail, as commonly used oppo site a frog, to keep the flanges of the earwheels from running the wrong side of the main-track rail B where brought to a point.

D is the trackgage, consisting of a rod provided with flattened ends, so that it may rest upon the tops of the rails, and having projecting portions depending from each end of it. The outside of these depending portions, or the distance between the points d d, forms the gage for the Inain-track rails. The inside of the said portions, or thedistance between the points d d', forms the gage for the guard-rails.

lIn Fig. 8 the ends of the gage are forked, so that the depending projections are duplicated. The use of this modication in the form of construction insures the gage being laid at right angles across the track. Another simple modiication of the same device would be to make only one end forked and leave the other end as shown in Figs. l and 2.

The gage as above described will be found simple and cheap to construct, and will be of very great use in making railroads, as it is of the greatest importance that the guard-rails which guide the car-anges at asiding should be placed at the same distance from the maintrack rails, and also that they and the said main-track rails should be at the same distance apart. This result can only be obtained by using a device which will gage all three distances at once or by repeated measure ments.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is l l. A railroad track gage consisting of a bar provided with projections depending from the ends of it, so that the distance between the outside of the projections forms the gage for the main-track rails and the distance between the inside of the said projections forms the gage for the guard-rails, substantially as and for the purposes set fort-h.

2. A railroad-track gage consisting of abar forked at one or at both ends, and having projections depending from each end, so that the distance between the outside of the projections forms the gage for the main-track rails, and the distance between the inside of the said projections forms the gage for the guard-rails, substantially as and for the purpose set forth. In testimony whereof Iafiix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

' RICHARD CAFFREY. Witnesses:

HERBERT W. T. JENNER, J AooB WEYMER. 

